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Arrested off Nantucket by the U. S. Coast Guard as a rum-smuggler was Skipper Louie Doucette, famed for his World War feat of rowing 230 miles in an open boat after his vessel had been sunk by a German submarine...
...Jacques Le Brun, skipper of a French monotype sloop, protested to the judges that an Italian boat had failed to give him sea room at the start of the ninth race. The judges disallowed the protest, disqualified Skipper Le Brun. He took his claim to the Olympic Protest Committee which differed with the judges, awarded Skipper Le Brun a first place that gave France the monotype championship instead of Holland, 87 points to 85. Sweden won the six-metre boat championship. The other yachting championships went to two U. S. boats-Gilbert Gray's star sloop Jupiter, Owen Churchill...
...first night was spent at anchor at Morris Cove near New Haven. Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York Power Authority, boarded the Myth II to discuss the St. Lawrence seaway. The second day. Skipper Roosevelt piloted his craft 50 mi. along the shore to Stonington, Conn. That night's visitors included J. Howard McGrath, Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman...
...Portuguese tuna-clipper returns to port after riding out a "chubasco" (tropical) storm off the Mexican coast. After two days & nights at the wheel the skipper, marooned in his pilot house, began to long to pray. The boat's tiny chapel was well aft, had to be reached across the open deck. Somehow the skipper made it, only to find the chapel empty of its gear. Desperate for something to pray to he tore a calendar off a locker wall, prayed to the figure printed on it. A few hours later the storm went down. Reporter Miller takes...
...trifle that officers may gauge the vessel's trim. Water ballast spills out here and there until the big ship rides evenly. Then from Commander Wiley: "Stand by to up ship!"-and his work for the moment is over. Within the control car he motions to his skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery ("Rosie") Rosendahl, that all is ready. The commander leans from a window, megaphone to lips, and shouts two momentous words: "Up ship...